Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD) is often referred to as the gold standard of sample characterisation, offering three-dimensional structure of both molecules and their crystalline packing, ...

If you shine a beam of light from a laser or flashlight, the beam will spread out over distance, becoming wider and less intense far from the source. That phenomenon is called diffraction, and it is ...

The first high-resolution x-ray diffraction imaging of an aerogel, performed at beamline 9.0.1 of the Department of Energy's Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has ...

Scientists at MIT have built a new type of electron gun capable of imaging so quickly, it effectively films an X-ray movie. We can't wait to see Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings epic filmed in ...

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A fibre-based source of near-ideal Bessel beams will be crucial for applications that require remote beam delivery as well as diffraction-free propagation. Scientists at OFS Laboratories in Somerset, ...

The unfulfilled desire of crystallographers to measure the phase of diffracted beams produced by X–ray diffraction tools is actually rather pointless, according to Emil Wolf, a theoretical physicist ...

The key innovation of our propulsion concept is the unique coupling of a neutral particle beam with a laser beam, a scheme which nearly eliminates thermal expansion and diffraction during beam ...

As we all know, light on its own tends to travel in a straight line. When it gets sent through an aperture like a flashlight, diffraction occurs, which causes the beam to widen and lose its intensity.

Scientists at MIT have built a new type of electron gun capable of imaging so quickly, it effectively films an X-ray movie. We can't wait to see Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings epic filmed in ...